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Indie Flick, OOTD

I’ve been outrageously impatient for spring weather, there’s been more snow at the end of this winter than there has been the rest of winter, but thankfully it’s recently been warmer.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Indie Flick, OOTD

Top: H&M, Skirt: H&M, Jacket: H&M Shoes: Toms

I love this skirt, my cousin bought it for me from H&M the last time we went shopping together. It’s a high waisted jersey midi skirt and it’s really comfortable to wear.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Indie Flick, OOTD

Necklace: H&M

Fashion and Happy Things!   Indie Flick, OOTD

Earrings:  baublebar

On My Face: Foundation- Sonja Kashuk, Blush- Frat Boy The Balm, Eyeshadow- The Lolita Palette Marc Jacobs, Eyeliner- Skinny Liquid Liner Nyx, Mascara- Makeup Forever Smokey Extravagant, Eyebrows- Turquoise Nyx Eyeliner, Highlighter- Mary Lou Manizer The Balm, Lipstick Indie Flick Nyx

I adore this lipstick, it’s definitely going to be my go too color for spring. It’s a lovely color and it’s long lasting without being outrageously drying.

Little Red Riding Hood

So I took an accidental hiatus. I just needed to reset myself, and get to where I was feeling good enough to get in front of the camera again. But then I found these photos from before all the snow, and decided that they needed to be posted.

I’m a huge fan of fairy tales, and found this coat in the back of my closet when getting dressed and immediately thought of little red riding hood. I’m actually pretty sure I was heading off to my parents house, so that’s even better. I can’t for the life of me remember why I stopped wearing it because it’s about 7 years old and I haven’t worn it in about 4 years.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Little Red Riding Hood

Coat: Wet Seal, Tee: Soffee, Jeans: Gap Boots: H&M

Fashion and Happy Things!   Little Red Riding Hood

Necklace: Jewelmint Hair: Color Ion Skye Blue Nails: Nails Inc Baker Street

Fashion and Happy Things!   Little Red Riding Hood

On My Face: Sonja Kashuk Foundation, The Balm Frat Boy Blush, The Balm Mary Lou Manizer, Makeup Forever Mascara, Marc Jacobs The Lolita Palette, Nars Eyeliner, Nars Dragon Girl

I absolutely adore these photos. It’s one of the perks of being married to a guy who knows his way around a camera.

Also I kinda really miss the days when it was warm enough to be outside, let alone take photos like this.

Stylish Sunday’s: Basically

I never really get a great start off to the year, because I’m always really sick until midspring when it starts to warm up. So for a little while longer it’s going to be just stylish sunday’s posts until flu season is over.

I think I took these last wednesday, I wasn’t to sick, but I was still feeling really lazy.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Basically

Outfit : V.S. Most Loved Leggings, Sweater: Maurices, Glasses: Kate Spade, Necklace: Jewelmint, Mug: Target last year.

Even Howl was feeling the laziness of the day:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Basically

He is a floof and he needs to be groomed, which we will be getting done next week.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Basically

On my face: Rimmel Match Perfection foundation, Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush, Maybelline The Nudes Eyeshadows, The Balm Mary Lou Manizer Highlighter, Makeup Forever Smokey Extravagant, Rimmel Eyeliner, NYX Eden lipstick

Since I was feeling really sick I just tossed my hair up into a bun, but I wanted to feel cute so I added a frenchbraid in the back:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Basically

 

Stylish Sundays: Holiday Throwback

Hey guys, so I took some major time off after Christmas right? But I’m back now and hopefully will be back to my regular posting schedule.

This outfit is actually what I wore to my family’s on Christmas eve.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Holiday Throwback

Sweater: H&M, Jeans: Gap Boots: Hunter

For those of you that follow me on Tumblr, you’ll know that I’ve changed my hair. That will be next weeks post.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Holiday Throwback

On My Face: Nars Tinted Moisturizer, Nars Creamy Concealer, Nars Blush in Deep Throat, The Balm Highlighter in Mary Lou Manizer, Marc Jacobs The Lolita Palette, Makeup Forever Mascara, Nars Matte Velvet Lip Pencil in Dragon Girl (Clearly I have a favorite brand of makeup now)

Necklace: Kate Spade

On My Nails: Maybelline Ruby and Deborah Lippman Happy Birthday.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Stylish Sundays: Holiday Throwback

And as per tradition here I am in my christmas pajamas. This year I got Aerie Cable Knit Jogger in Mint and the Aerie Sleep Tank in Fox Print. And I’m wearing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Socks that have Clarice on them.

Book: The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Makeup: Same as above.

(if you follow me on Tumblr you saw this image on christmas morning, Yes I put makeup on to take a photo in my pajamas for the internet.)

Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

Warning this post is long:

Right before Halloween I decided to dye my hair purple. I was having a major existential crisis, and feeling like I had no control over the things I was doing and then while I was at the grocery store this image popped up in my twitter feed:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

The always lovely Gaby Dunn

and then I looked down to see this:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

So I bought it. But this isn’t what I used.

For those of you who don’t know the woman in the picture above is Gaby Dunn. You can (and should) find her here, here, and here, and other places like Buzzfeed, and this interview that she did with Tim Minchin, which I think everyone everywhere needs to read.

I posted on twitter that I had been inspired to impulse dye my hair purple because of Gaby’s image and tagged her in it with a picture of that dye. She told me that Splat has a tendency to wash out quickly and that she used Pravana.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

The always lovely Gaby Dunn’s hair braided by Kristen Mortensen

I didn’t end up using Pravana either though, because once I get an idea in my head I have to do it right now. So I went to Sally’s and bought Color Ion Fuchsia and Lavender, with the Color Ion Color Shield Conditioner.

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining  Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining  Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

This is how it turned out:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

This is how I got this color: I mixed 1/4th of a tube of Fuchsia with a dab of Lavender in a Dye bowl that I bought for about a $1 and it came with a brush. Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

Then I added about 20-30 pumps of conditoner:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

And I mixed it all up until it looked like yogurt:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

and I applied the mixture to dry hair, put on a shower cap and left for it for 3 hours:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

You are not getting a picture of me in a shower cap, only tumblr is that lucky

To maintain the color I wash my hair about once a week with the Regis Purple Shampoo:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

and then I make the above mixture using less conditioner and dye than in the above picture and I leave it on for about an hour or two depending on what time I’ve put it in my hair.

When I went to Sally’s recently to get more dye they had the Violet dye that I had originally wanted:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

so I added it to my usual dye mixture so that it looked like this:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

If you’re wondering why I didn’t just switch straight to this since it’s the color I originally wanted, since my hair is already Fuchsia the lady at Sally’s recommended I mix it in using less Fuchsia and more Violet each time until I’m using only Violet when I run out of the Fuchsia.

and after I applied it I got this color:

Fashion and Happy Things!   Purple Hair: Dyeing and Maintaining

the color is a bit brighter than this, it was dark outside when we took the picture

I did not bleach my hair when I dyed it, which is part of why my hair isn’t as bright as hers is. My hair was a pretty light blonde already, but I do plan on bleaching it come summer when I change colors.

If you could dye your hair any color, what color would you dye it?

 

*I got permission from Gaby to use her photo’s in this post. You should always get permission before you use someone else’s photos, it’s just the right thing to do.